das ende der nahrungskette wrote:
Chronic radiation is defined as the radiation received slowly or
in a low-dose-rate from various sources. It is completely
different in nature to the acute gamma or neutron radiation
generated from the atomic bomb explosions that occurred in Japan
at the end of World War II. Tantalizing insights from people
living in higher-than-normal background radiation areas in the
world and from nuclear energy workers receiving excess radiation
over long years have suggested that chronic radiation might
paradoxically be beneficial to humans. However, in the absence of
an epidemiological study, it has been impossible to conclude
whether chronic radiation is harmless or indeed beneficial to
human beings. Fortuitously, an incredible Co-60 contamination
incident occurred in Taiwan 21 years ago, which provided the data
necessary to demonstrate that chronic radiation is beneficial to
human beings.
also zumindest das was von radon-abbauprodukten so an alpha-strahlung
emittiert wird ist der gesundheit ganz sicher nicht zuträglich; da man
das zeugs ja einatmet ist radon ein recht häufiger auslöser von lungenkrebs.
was in dem artikel offenbar nicht ausgeschlossen wurde, ist die
möglichkeit, dass die bestrahlten grossteils an anderen (eventuell von
der bestrahlung herrührenden) krankheiten sterben, _bevor_ sie an krebs
erkranken...
